asi, like this, we begin the natya, the drama

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así, like this, aisa, we begin the natya, the drama

Video edited by Ellen Johnston

Scenes from a rehearsal by the rio. Capileira, August 2022

from The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects, a solo play

by Shebana Coelho

with live music by Coral de los Reyes

See the play: Tuesday, September 20, at 19h, Universidad de Cadiz, Edificio Constitución 1812 (Antiguo Cuartel de la Bomba)

FREE and OPEN TO ALL!

To reserve your free ticket, please email maurice.oconnor@uca.es

More info: shebanacoelho.com

The play is part of a conference, that is also free, about India and colonization, hosted by the Asociación Española de Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre India (Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies).

Choreography Consultant

Rhina Motohkaw

Camera

Meghan Horvath

Special Thanks for opening choreography ideas

Jesus Fuentes

EXPLORE YOUR FELT BODY SENSE

The play is one month away, in September. This doesn’t give us time to write and hear back from grant-making organizations. We’ve begun the work as best we can.

And honestly, I have to tell you that it’s so curious.

Here I am in a place where I’ve had the most startling, raw conversations about colonization.

A la vez - at the same time, I feel so supported by the folks who have shown up to create this new version of the play.

People like Coral de los Reyes, who is singing in the play, Rhina Motohkaw, an amazing flamenco dancer who is helping me with choreography and flamenco - they drove down from Sevilla to Capileira to rehearse for the play, one of my oldest friends, Meghan Horvath who filmed this video and all these photos, Pedro who makes the best yogurt in Capielira, Tesoro Blanco, who helped me with lighting and sound design advice, his wife, Pilar whose palmas kept one rehearsal going, Jesus Fuentes who helped me with the opening choreography who is looking at the video of rehearsals to keep refining it, Alicia, who keeps me connected, Jaime. who fixed up the house, Christine Morro, whose keeps walking the path, my friend Sonia who keeps me sane with her massages and poetry. Not to mention the mayor of Capileira, Fernando who let us have the rehearsal space, the salon de actos, where the documentary, Nasario rememebers the Rio Puerco, was shown in 2017.

Perhaps because this play is a story made of song and dance and my world now, here in Andalusia, is made of people who value this arte.

(PS. And I absolutely kid you not, as I write this, a group of folks outside, at almost midnight, are singing "Dancing Queen" in perfect harmony.)

I am so grateful.

If you feel moved to support the project financially, we’d welcome it.

Most of all, I invite you to support this excavation of colonization

with your felt body sense:

meditate on what you see

and if you feel moved